(*denotes lab students)
2024
53. Gutarra, S., Mitchell, E.G., Dunn, F.S., Gibson, B.M.*, Racicot, R.A., Darroch, S.A.F. and Rahman, I.A. Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans. In revision, Current Biology 34:2528-2534.
52. Turk, K.A.*, Pulsipher, M.A., Bergh, E., Laflamme, M. and Darroch, S.A.F. Archaeichnium haughtoni: a robust burrow lining from the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition of Namibia. Papers in Palaeontology 10:e1546.
51. Gibson, B.M.*, Chipman, M., Attanasio, P., Qureshi, Z., Darroch, S.A.F., Rahman, I.A. and Laflamme, M. Reconstructing the feeding ecology of Cambrian sponge reefs: the case for active suspension feeding in Archaeocyatha. Royal Society Open Science 10: 230766.
2023
50. Spiering, B.R., Bissick, A., Darroch, S.A.F., Davies, J., Gibson, B.M., Halverson, G., Laflamme, L. and Hilgen, F. Initial cyclostratigraphy of the middle Nama Group (Schwarzrand Subgroup) in southern Namibia. Precambrian Research 397:107200.
49. Darroch, S.A.F. Smith, E.F., Nelson, L.L., Craffey, M.*, Schiffbauer, J.D. and Laflamme, M. 2023. Causes and consequences of end-Ediacaran extinction – an update. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction 1:e15.
48. Darroch, S.A.F. Gutarra, S., Masaki, H.*, Olaru, A.*, Gibson, B.M.*, Dunn, F.S., Mitchell, E.G., Racicot, R.A., Burzynski, G. and Rahman, I.A. 2023. Pectinifrons abyssalis, rangeomorphs, and hydrodynamic function at the dawn of animal life. iScience 26:105989
47. Rodewald, B.M.*, Darroch, S.A.F. and Casey, M.M. 2023 Long-term changes in Unionid community stricture in Kentucky Lake: implications for understanding the effects of impoundment of river systems. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 38:2203712.
46. Gibson, B.M.*, Schiffbauer, J.D., and Darroch, S.A.F. 2023. The role of iron in the formation of Ediacaran ‘death masks’. Geobiology 00:1–14
45. Laville, T., Hegna, T.A., Forel, M-B and Darroch, S.A.F. 2023. A new look at Concavicaris woodfordi (Euarthropoda: Pancrustacea?) using micro-computed tomography. Paleontologica Electronica, 26.1.a1
2022
44. Darroch, S.A.F. Saupe, E.E., Casey, M.M. and Jorge, M.L.S.P. 2022. Integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37:851-860
43. Dick, D., Novack-Gottshall, P., Darroch, S.A.F. and Laflamme, M. 2022. Does functional redundancy determine the ecological severity of a mass extinction event? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20220440
42. Nelson, L.L., Ramezani, J., Almond, J.E., Darroch, S.A.F., Taylor, W.L., Brenner, D.C., Furey, R.P., Turner, M. and Smith, E.F. 2022. Pushing the boundary: A calibrated Ediacaran–Cambrian stratigraphic record from the Nama Group in northwestern Republic of South Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 580:117396.
41. Turk, K.A.*, Maloney, K.M., Laflamme, M., and Darroch, S.A.F. 2022. Paleontology and ichnology of the Late Ediacaran Nasep-Huns transition (Nama Group, southern Namibia). Journal of Paleontology 96:753-769.
40. Darroch, S.A.F., Gibson, B.M., Syversen, M.*, Rahman, I.A., Racicot, R.A., Dunn, F.S., Gutarra-Diaz, S., Schindler, E., Wehrmann, A. and Laflamme, M. 2022. The life and times of Pteridinium simplex. Paleobiology. 1-30. doi:10.1017/pab.2022.2
2021
39. Gibson, B.M.*, Darroch, S.A.F., Maloney, K.M. and Laflamme, M. 2021. The importance of size and location within gregarious populations of Ernietta plateauensis. 2021. Frontiers in Earth Science 9:749150.
38. Darroch, S.A.F., Fraser, D., and Casey, M.M. 2021. The preservation potential of terrestrial biogeographic patterns. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 288:20202927
37. Cracknell, K., Ankor, M.J., García-Bellido, D.C., Gehling, J.G., Darroch, S.A.F. and Rahman, I.A. 2021. Pentaradial eukaryote suggests expansion of suspension feeding in White Sea-aged Ediacaran communities. Scientific Reports 11:4121.
36. Darroch, S.A.F., Cribb, A.T.*, Luis A. Buatois, L.A., Germs, G.J.B. Kenchington, C.G., Smith, E.F., Mocke, H., O’Neil, G.R., Schiffbauer, J.D., Maloney, K.M., Racicot, R.A., Turk, K.A.*, Gibson, B.M.*, Almond, J., Koester, B.*, Boag, T.M., Tweedt, S.M. and Laflamme, M. 2021 The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion. Earth Science Reviews 212:103435.
35. Gibson, B.M.*, Furbish, D.J., Rahman, I.A., Schmeeckle, M.W., and Darroch, S.A.F. 2021. Ancient life and moving fluids. Biological Reviews 96:129-152.
2020
35. Vaziri, S., Majidifard, M., Darroch, S.A.F., and Laflamme, M. 2020. Ediacaran Diversity and Paleoecology from Central Iran. Journal of Paleontology 95:236-251.
34. Maloney, K.M., Boag, T., Facciol, A., Gibson, B.*, Cribb, A.*, Koester, B.*, Kenchington, C., Racicot, R.A.R., Darroch, S.A.F. and Laflamme, M. 2020. Paleoenvironmental analysis of Ernietta bearing Ediacaran deposits in southern Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 556:109884.
33. Darroch, S.A.F., Michelle M. Casey, Gwen S. Antell, Amy Sweeney*, and Erin E. Saupe. 2020. High preservation potential of range size-extinction risk signals in deep time. The American Naturalist 194:454-471.
2019
32. Cribb, A.T.*, Kenchington, C.G., Koester, B*., Gibson, B.M.*, Boag, T.H., Racicot, R.A., Mocke, H., Laflamme, M. and Darroch, S.A.F. (2019). Increase in metazoan ecosystem engineering prior to the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary in the Nama Group, Namibia. Proceedings of the Royal Society Open Science 6:190548
31. Gibson, B.M.*, Rahman, I., Maloney, K., Racicot, R., Mocke, H., Laflamme, M., and Darroch, S.A.F. (2019) Gregarious suspension feeding in a modular Ediacaran organism. Science Advances 5:eaaw0260.
30. Racicot, R.A., Boessenecker, R.W., Darroch, S.A.F, and Geisler, J.H. (2019) Evidence for convergent evolution of ultrasonic hearing in toothed whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti). Biology Letters 15: 20190083.
29. Stöhr, S., Thuy, B., Clark, E.G. and Darroch, S.A.F. Exploring 3D imaging techniques for phylogenetic inference in brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). In press, Zoosymposia.
2018
28. Darroch, S.A.F., Laflamme, M., and Wagner, P.J. 2018. How complex were Ediacaran ecosystems? Nature Ecology and Evolution, v. 2, p. 1541-1547.
27. Darroch, S.A.F., Smith, E., Laflamme, M., and Erwin, D.H. Ediacaran extinction and Cambrian Explosion. 2018. Trends in Ecology and Evolution v. 33, p. 653-663.
26. Clark, E.G., Hutchinson, J.R., Darroch, S.A.F., Koch, N.M., Brady, T.R., Smith, S. and Briggs, D.E.G. Integrating morphology, skeletal mobility and in vivo behavioral observations with digital models to infer function in brittle star arms. Journal of Anatomy v.233, p. 696-714.
25. Racicot, R.A., Darroch, S.A.F. and Kohno, N. 2018. Neuroanatomy and inner ear labyrinths of the narwhal, Monodon monoceros and beluga, Delphinapterus leucas (Cetacea: Monodontidae). Journal of Anatomy v. 233, p. 421-439.
24. Gibson, B.M.*, Schiffbauer, J.D., and Darroch, S.A.F. 2018. Ediacaran-style decay experiments using mollusks and sea anemones. Palaios v.33, p. 185-203.
23. Darroch S.A.F., and Saupe, E.E. 2018. Reconstructing geographic range size dynamics from fossil data. Paleobiology. 1-15. doi:10.1017/pab.2017.25.
2017
22. Clark, E.G., Bhullar, B-A., S., Darroch, S.A.F., and Briggs, D.E.B. 2017. Water vascular system architecture in an Ordovician ophiuroid. Biology Letters, 13: 20170635.
21. Xiao, S., Vickers-Rich, P., Narbonne, G., Laflamme, M., Darroch, S.A.F., Kaufinan, A.J., and Kriesfeld, L. 2017. Field workshop on the Ediacaran Nama Group of southern Namibia. Episodes, v. 40, p. 259-261
20. Darroch, S.A.F., Rahman, I., Gibson, B., Racicot, R.A., and Laflamme, M. 2017. Inference of facultative mobility in the enigmatic Ediacaran organism Parvancorina. Biology Letters, 13: 20170033.
19. Hegna, T.A., Martin, M.J., and Darroch S.A.F. 2017. Pyritized in situ trilobite eggs from the Ordovician of New York (Lorraine Group): Implications for trilobite reproductive biology. Geology, v. 45, p. 199-202
2016
18. Darroch S.A.F., Boag, T., Racicot, R.A., Tweedt, S., Mason, S.J., Erwin, D.H., Laflamme, M. 2016. A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 459, p. 198-208.
17. Darroch, S.A.F., Locatelli, E.R., McCoy, V.E., Clark, E.G., Anderson, R.P., Tarhan, L.G., and Hull, P.M. 2016. Taphonomic disparity in foraminifera as a paleo-indicator for seagrass. Palaios v. 31 p. 242-258
16. Schiffbauer, J.D., Huntley, J.W., O’Neil, G.R., Darroch, S.A.F., Laflamme, M., Cai, Y. 2016. The Latest Ediacaran Wormworld Fauna: Setting the Ecological Stage for the Cambrian Explosion. GSA Today v. 26, p. 4-11.
15. Boag, T.H., Darroch, S.A.F., and Laflamme, M. 2016. Ediacaran distributions in space and time: testing assemblage concepts of earliest macroscopic body fossils. Paleobiology v. 39, p. 591-608.
14. Cotroneo, S., Schiffbauer, J.D., Wortmann, U., Darroch, S.A.F., McCoy, V.E., and Laflamme, M. 2016. Isotope and mineralogical insights on the formation of Mazon Creek Lagerstätte Siderite Concretions. Geobiology v. 14, p. 543-555.
13. Vickers-Rich, P., Narbonne, G., Laflamme, M., Darroch, S.A.F., Kaufman, A. J., and Kriesfeld, L., 2016. The Nama Group of Southern Namibia. The End Game of the First Large, Complex Organisms on Earth, the Ediacarans [IGCP493/587]. 35th International Geological Congress, 2016 Pre-conference Field Guide, 21-25 August, Namibia, International Geological Congress Guidebook with New Artwork, Cape Town, South Africa: 1-16.
2015
12. Darroch, S.A.F., Sperling, E.A., Boag, T., Racicot, R.A., Mason, S.J., Morgan, A.S., Tweedt, S., Myrow, P., Erwin, D.H. and Laflamme, M. 2015. Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v. 282.
11. Darroch, S.A.F., and Wagner, P.J. 2015, Responses of beta diversity to pulses of Ordovician-Silurian extinction. Ecology, v. 96, p. 532-549.
10. Hull, P.M., Darroch, S.A.F., and Erwin, D.H. 2015. Rarity in mass extinctions and the future of ecosystems. Nature, v. 528, p. 345-351.
9. Rahman, I., Darroch, S.A.F., Racicot, R.A., and Laflamme, M. 2015. Suspension feeding in the enigmatic Ediacaran organism Tribrachidium demonstrates complexity of Neoproterozoic ecosystems. Science Advances, v.1.
2014
8. Darroch, S.A.F., Webb, A.E., Longrich, N., and Belmaker, J. 2014. Paleocene-Eocene evolution of beta-diversity among ungulate mammals in North America. 2014. Global Ecology and Biogeography. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12156
2013
7. Darroch, S.A.F., Laflamme, M., and Clapham, M.E. 2013. Population structure of the oldest known macroscopic communities from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland. Paleobiology, v.39, p. 591-608.
6. Field, D.J., Brown, C., Lynner, C., and Darroch, S.A.F. 2013. Skeletal correlates for body mass estimation in flying birds. PLoS One, 8(11).
5. Hull, P.M. and Darroch, S.A.F. 2013. Mass extinctions and the structure and function of ecosystems. GSA 2013 Short Course: Ecosystem Paleobiology and Geobiology, eds. Andrew Bush, Sarah Pruss, and Jonathan Payne, p. 115-157.
4. Zamora, S., Darroch, S.A.F., and Rahman, I.A. 2013. Taphonomy and ontogeny of early pelmatozoan echinoderms: a case study of a mass mortality assemblage of Gogia from the Cambrian of North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v.377, p. 62-72.
3. Laflamme, M., Darroch, S.A.F., Tweedt, S., Peterson, K.J., and Erwin, D.H. 2013. The end of the Ediacara biota: extinction, biotic replacement, or Cheshire cat? Gondwana Research, v.23, p. 558-573.
2012
2. Darroch, S.A.F., Laflamme, M., Schiffbauer, J.D. and Briggs, D.E.G. 2012. Experimental formation of a microbial death mask. Palaios, v.27, p. 293-303
1. Darroch, S.A.F. 2012. Carbonate facies control on the fidelity of surface-subsurface agreement in benthic foraminiferal communities – implications for index-based paleoecology. Palaios, v.27, p. 137-150.